An animal rights group is appealing for information relating to the alleged abuse and killing of cats by a DJ.
Veterinarian Phattharanan Sajjarom, who works for Watchdog Thailand, yesterday urged people to send any information connected to the case to the Watchdog website, as to help the police find solid evidence to charge the DJ.
"I'm asking anyone who can help us. This [the killing of a pet kitten by the DJ] wasn't the first," she said.
A police complaint was recently filed with Phetkasem police by Isaraporn Samutklalin, 29, accusing a 30-year-old DJ of brutally killing a recently adopted one-month-old kitten for bitcoins on a fetishist website.
Police called the DJ in for questioning and searched her condominium in Bangkok but found no evidence to support the accusation. Police could not press charges for the time being.
The DJ is also facing another complaint from Nopparat Khamburanawit, who claims the DJ made up a story about how she lost one of two cats she sold her.
The DJ said the cat ran away from a veterinary clinic in Bangkok, which the clinic denied, according to Ms Nopparat.
Yesterday, Peeraboon Chareonwai, president of Watchdog Thailand, and officials of the Livestock Development Department met Pol Maj Gen Thiti Saengsawang, acting deputy chief of the Metropolitan Police Bureau (MPB), to discuss prosecuting the DJ for animal cruelty.
The DJ is suspected of having killed the young kitten during a live stream on the "dark web".
Pol Lt Gen Sutthipong Wongpin, acting commissioner of the MPB, said yesterday he has assigned Pol Maj Gen Thiti to be in charge of the case, and that investigators are finding out if the DJ had broken any laws.
The DJ in question has denied the accusations. She said the kitten had simply wandered away and was killed by a car and showed the kitten's dead body to authorities during a search of her condominium.
But Watchdog Thailand's vets said a necropsy showed it had not been hit and killed by a car.
"There is an indication the kitten received a hard blow to its right forehead, blood was clotted inside and there was a skull fracture. But that blow was not hard enough to push its eyeballs out, as often seen on animals hit by cars," Watchdog announced on its Facebook account on Saturday.
Mr Peeraboon also said that information about the pets adopted by the DJ, as well as the accounts and testimonies of the complainants, will be handed over to the police, in the hope that it would constitute enough evidence for police investigators to open a case and press charges against the DJ.